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Body and Physical Environment in Communication of a Non-speaking Boy with Cerebral Palsy and his Mother

This is a website about Ivan and Anastasia, a family who developed their own communication system. Anastasia is an educator, a specialist in alternative communication, a caretaker and a loving mother of Ivan. Ivan is a playful and at times mischievous son of Anastasia, he has cerebral palsy and communicates with his body, home setting, and an eyetracker.

Ivan, an eight year-old boy, sits in his chair in the kitchen, his head and eyes looking to the rights, outside the window to talk about his school teacher (a person from the "outside"). His mother sits by his right side and looks at him
"Ivan, a widely-smiling pale-skinned person with hazelnut eyes, is sitting in his chair covered by a light plush blanket. He sits in front of his desk and laptop which is open and shows a Russian alphabet and a typed phrase “hello cosmos.” A pale grey stripe of the eyetracker is attached between the upper and lower parts of the laptop. Behind Ivan, on the wall, there are a lot of posters with school rules from Math, Russian, and English. The wallpaper peeking through the posters shows beautiful red flowers scratched a little bit at the bottom by cat’s claws."

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